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HISTORY

BIOGRAPHY & LETTERS

LITERATURE

PHILOSOPHY

SCIENCE

CURRENT AFFAIRS

LANGUAGE

OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS

VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS

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CONTENTS

HISTORYRebellionBritain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642TIM HARRIS

Architects of their own destruction?

Tim Harris’s ground-breaking works on the Stuart monarchs after the English Civil War –

Restoration and Revolution – have rewritten the history of the period. His new book is

equally original, bringing new insights to the period that sowed the seeds of discontent.

James VI and I and his son Charles I were both reforming monarchs who endeavoured to

bolster the authority of the crown in Scotland, Ireland, and England. James’s initiatives proved

controversial – the Ulster plantation, church rule in Scotland, financial and foreign policy in

England – yet he survived to the end. It was Charles, continuing his father’s policies, who ran

into grave difficulties, eventually provoking all three of his kingdoms to rise in rebellion. Was

Charles simply not up to the job? Or had James left him an impossible legacy?

Rebellion is both strong narrative history and enthralling biography. It is the story of high

politics and low; affairs of state and the lives of ordinary citizens; constitutional and

religious conflict; propaganda and public opinion. It presents the last period in British

history in which the monarch had the power to shape the fate of the nation.

Advance praise:

‘Tim Harris brings a wonderful freshness, directness, and authority to this account of the

reigns of two contentious monarchs. Combining depth and breadth of reading, he offers

much to the specialist and to someone new to the period.’

John Morrill

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About the AuthorTIM HARRIS is Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor in European History at

Brown University. He is the author of numerous essays, articles, and books

on British history in the early modern period, including Restoration: Charles

II and His Kingdoms 1660-1685 and Revolution: The Great Crisis of the

British Monarchy, 1685-1720.

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MICHAEL HOWARDThe First World War: AVery Short Introduction978-0-19-920559-2, £7.99

ALAN KRAMERDynamic of Destruction978-0-19-954377-9, £20.00

RICHARD ROBERTSSaving the City978-0-19-964654-8, £20

THOMAS WEBERHitler’s First War978-0-19-922638-2, £10.99

LITERATUREALAIN-FOURNIERThe Lost Domain978-0-19-967868-6, £12.99

PAUL FUSSELLThe Great War and ModernMemory978-0-19-997195-4, £12.99

TIM KENDALLPoetry of the First World War978-0-19-958144-3, £14.99

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JOHN BUCHANGreenmantle978-0-19-953785-3, £8.99

ERSKINE CHILDERSThe Riddle of the Sands978-0-19-954971-9, £7.99

RUDYARD KIPLINGWar Stories and Poems978-0-19-955550-5, £10.99

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HEW STRACHANThe Oxford Illustrated History ofthe First World War 2/eApril 2014, see page 9

HEW STRACHANThe First World War: To Arms (Reissue)‘One of the mostimpressive books ofmodern history in ageneration.’

Max Hastings, London Evening Standard

April 2014, pb, 978-0-19926191-8, £25

CHRISTOPHER BELLChurchill and Sea PowerMay 2014, see page 18

MICHAEL AND ELEANORBROCK Margot Asquith’s Great War DiaryMay 2014, see page 8

GORDON MARTELJuly 1914: The Month thatChanged the WorldJune 2014, see page 7

JON STALLWORTHYThe New Oxford Book of WarPoetryJune 2014, see page 24

Already available

HEW STRACHAN

TO ARMSTHE FIRST

WORLD WAR

PublishingJanuary – June 2014

A range of essential history and literature books, marking the centenary commemorations.For full details of all OUP’s centenary publishing and promotion, go to www.oup.com/history/ww1

July 1914The month that changed the worldGORDON MARTEL

Recreated moment by moment – the days that led to the Great War

On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five

fateful weeks later Europe was at war. How did a minor Balkan problem become a cataclysm?

Gordon Martel answers that question in a history book that reads like a thriller, recreating the

drama of the crisis as it was experienced by those who were caught up in it.

Devoting a chapter to each of the final ten days – the infamous ‘July Crisis’ – Martel sweeps

away traditional concepts of ‘guilt’, ‘responsibility’, and ‘the inevitability of war’, turning

instead to the contemporary diplomatic, military, and political records to show how the

catastrophe really unfurled. His gripping, step-by-step account of these crucial days makes

clear just how little the conflict was in fact premeditated, preordained, or even predictable.

What emerges is the story of a terrible, unnecessary tragedy – one that can be understood

only by retracing the steps taken by those who went down the road to war. Martel shows how

the hopes and fears of those at the heart of the unfolding crisis – Kaiser Wilhelm II, the

Emperor Franz Joseph, Tsar Nicholas II, Sir Edward Grey, and Raymond Poincaré – intersected

as events unfolded, and how each new decision produced a response that complicated or

escalated matters to the point where they became almost impossible to contain.

Advance praise: ‘In an avalanche of books on the First World War’s origins, Gordon

Martel’s will stand out for its authoritative judgements… and detailed but compelling

narrative based overwhelmingly on first-hand and contemporary evidence.’

David Stevenson, author of 1914-1918: the History of the First World War

PR: Anna Silva

April 2014Hardback336 pp, 25 black and white halftones,234x153 mm, TA978-0-19-965646-2£20.00Available as an Ebook

See also Robin Waterfield’s newtranslation of Selected Speeches byDemosthenes, page 51.

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Taken at the FloodThe Roman Conquest of GreeceROBIN WATERFIELD

How Ancient Greece fell to the Roman colossus

‘There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.’ These

words from Brutus in Julius Caesar deftly describe the swift, brutal, and determined

conquest by the Romans of the Greeks in a little over six decades.

Rome’s defeat of the civilization from which it had learned so much is a tale of brutality. But

apart from the thrilling military action, the story is also central to that of Rome itself and

the empire it created. Robin Waterfield’s engrossing new book raises a number of intriguing

questions: To what extent was the Roman conquest a planned and deliberate policy? What

was it about Roman culture that gave it such a will for conquest? And what was the effect

on Roman intellectual and artistic culture, on their very identity, of their entanglement with

an older Greek civilization, which the Romans themselves recognized as supreme?

At the start of this account, the Mediterranean is home to six superpowers. Six decades

later, there is only one. The story of this astounding transition is pivotal to the history of

Rome, her empire, and the whole subsequent development of Europe.

PR: Anna Silva

HISTORY

About the AuthorROBIN WATERFIELD has translated numerous Greek classics, including

works by Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Xenophon, Polybius, and Plutarch. He

lives in the far south of Greece on a small olive farm.

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June 2014Hardback

416 pp, 55 black and white halftones,234x153 mm, TA

978-0-19-966538-9£25.00


Published for the 100th anniversary ofthe assassination of the Archduke

Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 2014

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About the AuthorGORDON MARTEL is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of

Northern British Columbia, and Adjunct Professor of History at the

University of Victoria. His numerous publications include studies of the

origins of the first and second world wars, modern imperialism, and the

nature of diplomacy.

April 2014Hardback

416 pp, 23 colour plates, 130 blackand white illustrations, 7 maps,

246x189 mm, TA978-0-19-966338-5

£25.00Available as an Ebook

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About the EditorHEW STRACHAN is Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University

of Oxford, and directed the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of

War. He is a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner, a Trustee of the

Imperial War Museum, and serves on the British, Scottish, and French

national committees advising on the centenary of the First World War.

HISTORY

June 2014Hardback 520 pp, 6 black and white halftones,234x156 mm, TA978-0-19-822977-3£30.00Available as an Ebook

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Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary, 1914-1916The View from Downing StreetSelected and edited byMICHAEL BROCK and ELEANOR BROCK

The politics of war, observed from the inside

Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led

Britain into war in August 1914. Asquith’s early war leadership drew praise from all

quarters, but in December 1916 he was forced from office in a palace coup, and replaced by

David Lloyd George, whose career he had done so much to promote. Margot had both the

literary gifts and the vantage point to create, in her diary of these years, a compelling

record of her husband’s fall from grace.

An intellectual socialite with the airs, if not the lineage, of an artistocrat, Margot was both a

spectator and participant in the events she describes, and in public affairs could be an ally or

an embarrassment – sometimes both. Her diary vividly evokes the wartime milieu as

experienced in 10 Downing Street, and describes the great political battles that lay behind the

warfare on the Western Front, in which Asquith would himself lose his eldest son. The writing

teems with character sketches, including Lloyd George (‘a natural adventurer who may make or

mar himself any day’), Churchill (‘Winston’s vanity is septic’), and Kitchener (‘a man brutal by

nature and by pose’).

Never previously published, this candid, witty, and worldly diary gives us a unique insider’s

view of the centre of power. Explanatory footnotes and an introduction by Michael and

Eleanor Brock provide the context and background information we need to appreciate it to

the full.

PR: Anna Silva

About the EditorsMICHAEL BROCK is a modern historian, educationalist, and Oxford college

head. He was Vice-President of Wolfson College; Director of the School of

Education at Exeter University; Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford; and

Warden of St George’s House, Windsor Castle. He is the author of The Great

Reform Act, and co-editor, with Mark Curthoys, of the two nineteenth-

century volumes in the History of the University of Oxford. With his wife,

ELEANOR BROCK, a former schoolteacher, he edited the acclaimed OUP

edition of H. H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley.

HISTORYThe Oxford Illustrated History of the First World WarEdited by HEW STRACHAN

A new edition of a classic history to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreakof war in 1914

By 1918, millions lay dead, three major empires were shattered, and a fourth, Russia, was

in the throes of a revolution that helped define the rest of the twentieth century. The First

World War was a momentous event, and it still shapes the world in which we live.

The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War brings together in one volume many of

the most distinguished historians of the conflict in an account that matches the scale of the

events. From its causes to its consequences, from the Western Front to the Eastern, from

politicians to generals, from strategy to tactics, they chart the course of the war and assess

its profound political and human consequences. Chapters on economic mobilization, the

impact on women, the role of propaganda, and the rise of socialism establish the wider

context.

First published in 2000, the book has become a highly prized guide to the many

dimensions of the Great War. Every part of this new edition has been revised and updated

in the light of the latest scholarship: there are completely new chapters on the strategy of

the Central Powers, the role of women in the war, mutinies and military morale, and the

post-war conflicts in the years immediately after 1918; and over 40 new illustrations have

been added.

PR: Anna Silva

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Reissue

The First World War: To Arms HEW STRACHAN

April 2014, Paperback, 248 pp, 234x156 mm, TA

978-0-19926191-8£25.00


May 2014Hardback

432 pp, 25 black and whiteillustrations, 235x156 mm, TA

978-0-19-998611-8£20.00


Published for the 70th anniversary of D-Day

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NeptuneThe Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day LandingsCRAIG L. SYMONDS

Giving the naval arm its rightful place in the history of the Normandy landings

D-Day could not have taken place without Operation Neptune. 160,000 Allied troops landed

along 50 miles of French coastline to battle German forces on the beaches of Normandy,

suffering devastating losses in an invasion that would eventually lead to the liberation of

Western Europe. Histories of D-Day have typically overlooked the incredible naval operation

that played a crucial role, yet it involved over five thousand ships and nearly half-a-million

personnel. Indeed, Operation Neptune was the largest seaborne assault in human history,

without which the battles at Normandy never could have taken place.

Neptune brilliantly traces the central thread of this Olympian event from the first tentative

conversations by British and American officers in Washington in the winter of 1941. With

characteristically vivid narration, Craig L. Symonds uncovers the various components of the

operation, and follows key personalities such as Roosevelt, Churchill, and Eisenhower

involved in this exceptional campaign.

This superb book is a study of how the sometimes disputatious Anglo-American allies

managed to overcome differing views, Russian demands, German U-boats, logistical

bottlenecks, and a thousand other obstacles, to bring the allied armies to Normandy.

PR: Anna Silva

About the AuthorCRAIG L. SYMONDS is Professor of History Emeritus at the United States

Naval Academy. He is the author of many books on American naval history,

including Lincoln and His Admirals, co-winner of the Lincoln Prize.

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May 2014Hardback 256 pp, 216x135 mm, TA978-0-19-966921-9£18.99Available as an Ebook

See also Fascism: A Very ShortIntroduction, page 55, andBurning the Reichstag, page 14.

The GestapoPower and Terror in the Third ReichCARSTEN DAMS andMICHAEL STOLLE

Hitler’s secret state police force was the most feared instrument of political terror in the

Third Reich, brutally hunting down and destroying anyone it regarded as an enemy of the

Nazi regime: Socialists, Communists, Jews, homosexuals, and anyone else deemed to be

an ‘anti-social element’. Its prisons soon became infamous – many of those who

disappeared into them were never seen again.

But is this an accurate view of the Gestapo? Was it really an all-pervasive, all-powerful, all-

knowing instrument of terror? How much did it depend upon the cooperation and help of

ordinary Germans? And did its networks extend further into the everyday life of German

society than most Germans after 1945 ever wanted to admit?

Answering all these questions and more, this succinct and highly accessible work by

German historians uses the very latest research to tell the true story behind this secretive

and fearsome institution. Tracing the history of the organization from its origins in the

Weimar Republic, through the crimes of the Nazi period, to the fate of former officers after

World War II, Carsten Dams and Michael Stolle investigate how the Gestapo really worked –

and question many of the myths that have long surrounded it.

Advance praise: ‘An excellent short introduction to one of the most

complex issues in the history of the Third Reich.’

Richard Overy

PR: Anna Silva

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About the AuthorsCARSTEN DAMS is Professor of Police Sciences at the School of Public

Management of North-Rhine Westphalia.

MICHAEL STOLLE is an Executive Director of the multidisciplinary ‘House of

Competence’ at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

March 2014Hardback

392 pp, 28 black and white halftones, 12 maps, 234x156 mm, TA

978-0-19-964667-8£25.00


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March 2014Hardback

312 pp, 8 pp colour plate section, 9 black and white illustrations,

234x156 mm, TA978-0-19-967526-5


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HISTORYVisions of ScienceBooks and readers at the dawn of the Victorian ageJAMES A. SECORD, University of Cambridge

Revolutionary ideas and the birth of popular science

In the first half of the nineteenth century, new scientific disciplines and revolutionary scientific

concepts – evolution, and the vastness of geological time –began to take shape. At the same time

there was political unrest in continental Europe, and debates in Britain regarding education, the

lives of working class people, and the new industrial, machine-dominated world. Jim Secord,

Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, captures the changing times by looking at the

impact of twelve influential ‘popular science’ books, including Charles Lyell’s Principles of

Geology, Mary Somerville’s Connexion of the Physical Sciences, and Thomas Carlyle’s satirical

work, Sartor Resartus. How did genteel ladies, working men, and the intelligentsia respond to

them, and how were the books published and disseminated, admired, attacked, and satirized?

PR: Dan Parker

Ancient SyriaA Three Thousand Year HistoryTREVOR BRYCE, University of Queensland

Battleground background – the road to modern Syria

Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the

Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to

tell the 3000-year story of what came before: the peoples, cities, cultures, and kingdoms

that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria.

Across the centuries we encounter a vast array of characters and civilizations: from the

Hittite and Assyrian Great Kings to the biblically notorious Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the

Great to some of Rome’s most distinguished and most infamous emperors. The conclusion

looks forward to the Muslim conquest in the 7th century AD, in many ways the opening

chapter in the equally complex and often troubled history of modern Syria.

PR: Anna Silva

June 2014Hardback336 pp, 31 black and white halftones,234x153 mm, TA978-0-19-968942-2£20.00Available as an Ebook

The Story of PainFrom Prayer to PainkillersJOANNA BOURKE

Instrument of perfection, or an evil to be eliminated?

Experiencing pain is something we all share. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving

birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches – pain permeates our entire lives. We might say

that ‘it was ever so’ – but, in truth, it wasn’t: our understanding of pain has undergone a

massive transformation during the last three centuries.

This book is the first to look at the history of pain in the English-speaking world over the last

300 years. For much of this period, pain was seen as serving a specific (and positive) function

– it was a message from God or Nature that would perfect the spirit and must be submitted

to. In the twenty-first century pain is viewed as an unremitting evil – something to be ‘fought’

and ‘conquered’. Joanna Bourke, author of many outstanding works on the history of

medicine, provides an enthralling analysis of pain’s many transformations over time.

How have those in pain interpreted their suffering – and how have these interpretations

changed? How have people learnt to conduct themselves when suffering? How do friends

and family react? Is professional detachment the right response for doctors? The Story of

Pain explores these questions, showing us how we might respond to our own suffering –

and, just as importantly, to the suffering of those around us.

PR: Anna Silva

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About the AuthorJOANNA BOURKE is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of

London. She is the author of a number of important works on the history of

medicine, a frequent contributor to TV and radio shows, and a regular

newspaper correspondent.

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Death from the SkiesHow the British and Germans Survived Bombing in World War IIDIETMAR SÜSS, Friedrich Schiller University

The first major comparison of British and German response to mass bombing

The debate over the rights and the wrongs of the mass bombing of British and German cities during

World War II remains a highly emotive subject even today. The ‘Blitz’ killed tens of thousands and laid

waste to large areas of many British cities. But the British and American response was incomparably

more devastating – with apocalyptic consequences for German cities such as Hamburg, Dresden, and

Berlin. In this ground-breaking new book, Dietmar Süss focuses on the effects of the bombing on

civilians in both Britain and Nazi Germany, showing how two very different societies coped with the

onslaught and kept up morale amidst the devastation and psychological trauma visited on them.

Advance praise: ‘A remarkable book by an outstanding German scholar.’

Richard J. Overy

PR: Dan Parker

Fight or FlightBritain, France, and their Roads from EmpireMARTIN THOMAS, University of Exeter

Winds of change and storms of destruction

Although shattered by World War II, Britain and France still controlled the world’s two largest colonial

empires, stretching over four continents. And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of

those who promised to defend their colonial possessions at all costs is a long one. Yet, within twenty

years both empires had almost completely disappeared. Hundreds of millions of people were caught

up in the biggest reconfiguration of the international system ever seen. Peaceable ‘transfers of power’

were eclipsed by territorial partition and mass violence whose bitter aftermath still lingers. How

differently did France and Britain manage the process? And what influence did the changes in the

world at large have – the rise of mass communications, consumerism, and economic globalization?

Advance praise: ‘A masterpiece.’

Wm Roger Louis, editor of The Oxford History of the British Empire

PR: Anna Silva

March 2014Hardback

560 pp, 23 black and whitehalftones, 11 maps, 234x153 mm, TA

978-0-19-969827-1£25.00


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736 pp, 9 black and white in-texthalf-tones, 234x153 mm, TA

978-0-19-966851-9£30.00


HISTORY

February 2014 Hardback416 pp, 16 black and white illustrations,235x156 mm, TA978-0-19-932232-9£19.99Available as an Ebook

See also Fascism: A Very Short Introduction,page 55, and The Gestapo, page 10.

Worlds of ArthurFacts and Fictions of the Dark AgesGUY HALSALL, University of York

‘Cuts through all the fantasy Arthuriana ... shows us that behind that image is a reality

which is no less fascinating.’ Michael Wood

‘Brilliant ... Those who desire a surprisingly witty, intellectually rigorous and historically

captivating journey deep into the crucible of medieval Britain will enjoy this book immensely.’

Dan Jones, Sunday Times

In recent times there has been a continuous stream of books claiming to unlock the secret of

the ‘once and future king’. As this challenging new look at the Arthur legend makes clear, all

books claiming to ‘reveal the truth’ can safely be ignored. What Guy Halsall uncovers in his

enthralling investigation is both radically different – and also a good deal more intriguing.

PR: Chloe Foster

Burning the ReichstagAn Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring MysteryBENJAMIN CARTER HETT

One of the last secrets of the Nazi era uncovered

On 27 February 1933, the German Reichstag went up in flames. Five thousand people were

immediately arrested, a catastrophe that marked the true beginning of the Third Reich. The

origin of the fire is one of the last mysteries of the Nazi period. Benjamin Hett challenges

orthodoxy by reopening the case of Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist

stonemason, who, since the 1950s, has been largely blamed for setting it. Making use of

many new sources and archives, Hett sets the Reichstag fire in a wider context, providing

vivid portraits of key figures, including Hermann Goering and Joseph Goebbels. This

enthralling book reveals how and why the event is still one of the most controversial and

contested events of the twentieth century.

PR: Anna Silva

May 2014Paperback384 pp, 20 black and white halftones, 15 maps, 216x135 mm, TA978-0-19-870084-5£10.99Available as an Ebook

Hardback: 978-0-19-965817-6

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See also By all Means Necessary,page 41.

January 2014Hardback416 pp, 15 black and white halftones,3 maps, 234x156 mm, TA978-0-19-969771-7£25.00Available as an Ebook

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HISTORY

January 2014Hardback464 pp, 14 black andwhite images, 234x156 mm, AJ978-0-19-966521-1£45.00Available as an Ebook

A New History of theHumanitiesThe Search for Principlesand Patterns from Antiquityto the PresentRENS BOD, University of Amsterdam

The first overarching history of thehumanities

Many histories of science have been

written, but surprisingly there is no

comparable history of the humanities –

until now. Rens Bod has created the first

overarching history of the humanities

from Antiquity to the present. He brings

to our attention figures such as Panini,

Valla, Bopp, and countless others who

are often overlooked, and gives them

their rightful place next to scientific

titans like Galileo, Newton, and Einstein.

PR: Lorna Richerby

The Normans andEmpireDAVID BATES, University of East Anglia

A new approach to the history of theNorman period

In his acclaimed 2010 Ford Lecture in

British History, given at the University of

Oxford, David Bates proposed that

historians of the Norman period can learn

from the methods of social scientists and

historians of other periods in making use

of such tools as life-stories and

biographies. He uses these new

approaches to create this enthralling, new

interpretative history of the Normans.

PR: Lorna Richerby

Revolutions from Grub StreetA History of MagazinePublishing in BritainHOWARD COX, University ofWorcester, and SIMON MOWATT,AUT Business School

The first comprehensive businesshistory of Britain’s consumermagazine publishing industry

Spanning over 300 years, Revolutions from

Grub Street is the first comprehensive

business history of magazine-making in

Britain. From the Glorious Revolution of 1688

that saw the beginnings of publishing in the

Grub Street area of London (later to become

Fleet Street) to today’s multi-million pound

industry which has embraced the world-wide

web, this is a highly readable narrative

account of the people, technology and

industrial organization behind one of

Britain’s most successful creative industries.

PR: Kirsty Doole

January 2014Hardback272 pp, 234x156 mm, AJ978-0-19-967441-1£35.00Available as an Ebook

Goodbye to All That?The Story of Europe Since 1945DAN STONE, University of London

How fascism refused to die

The post-War years were in many ways golden ones for western Europe as it continued to be

sustained by the broad anti-fascist consensus. However, as Dan Stone shows in his valuable new

history of the continent, this fundamental consensus began to break down in the wake of the oil

shocks of the 1970s, and accelerated rapidly after the end of the Cold War. He argues that the

postwar consensus went hand in hand with particular ways of remembering World War II. By

looking at how ‘memory’ is intimately tied to issues of power and social change, the book

provides a historical background to contemporary ills afflicting Europe, and helps readers to

understand why current crises and the politics emerging from them take the shape they do.

Advance praise: ‘Bold and discerning.’ Geoff Eley

PR: Anna Silva

The People’s Republic of AmnesiaThe Legacy of Tiananmen SquareLOUISA LIM, former BBC correspondent in Beijing

A view of the Tiananmen Square tragedy from inside China

Twenty-five years after the People’s Army crushed unarmed protestors in Tiananmen Square

on 4 June, 1989, the defining event of China’s modern history remains a taboo subject in the

country. National Public Radio’s award-winning China correspondent, Louisa Lim provides a

window into Tiananmen Sqaure unlike anything written before. With fluid prose and an eye

for detail, she presents the event from the perspective of the survivors, student leaders,

and others involved, choosing to focus on eight individuals, including a soldier, a diplomat,

and a student. Drawing on new sources made available in recent years, including Wikileaks

cables, Lim discusses the quarter-century campaign on the part of Chinese officials to

control memory of the event, and considers the legacy of Tiananmen in China today.

PR: Anna Silva

PUBLISHED FOR THE 25TH ANNI VERSAR Y

One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-RoperEdited by RICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES and ADAM SISMAN

One of the most gifted historians and finest letter-writers of the twentieth century

The literary fame of Hugh Trevor-Roper, which in his lifetime arose from his historical writings,

has been widened by the publication of letters and journals that have come to light since his

death in 2003. The one hundred letters brought together for this book, on the occasion of the

centenary of his birth, illustrate the range of his extraordinary life.

We meet him as historian, controversialist, public intellectual, connoisseur of poetry, traveller,

countryman. In mood the letters range from comic exuberance to melancholy reflection, from

hard-headed analysis to pastoral evocation. In subject-matter they take us from his inside

knowledge and close observation of affairs of state – his friendship with the spy Kim Philby,

the Suez affair, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, or the regime of Mrs Thatcher – to the private

pleasures of reading and thinking and to his fondness for the natural world. We also

encounter, especially in letters to members of his family, an emotional intensity which will

surprise those who knew only the cool and confident exterior he presented to the world.

His correspondence depicts a life of rich diversity, a mind of intellectual sparkle and eager

curiosity, a character who relished the absurdities and vanities of his contemporaries, and a

never-failing mastery of precise, delicate, and subtle prose. He is rightly considered to be one

of the finest letter-writers of the twentieth century.

PR: Anna Silva

Advance praise:

‘This latest anthology is by turns memorable, fascinating, wicked

and malicious, and impossible to put down.’

Sir David Cannadine

January 2014Hardback

480 pp, 8 pp colour and black andwhite plates, 234x156 mm, TA

978-0-19-870311-2£25.00


The centenary of Hugh Trevor-Roper’sbirth is 15 January 2014.

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BIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS

About the EditorsRICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES has edited two previous collections of

Trevor-Roper’s writings, Letters from Oxford and Wartime Journals.

ADAM SISMAN is the author of the authorized biography of Hugh Trevor-Roper.

He is currently at work on a life of John le Carré.

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Churchilland Sea PowerCHRISTOPHER M. BELL, DalhousieUniversity

‘Far-ranging, elegantly written and

insightful.’Matthew Seligmann,

Journal of Strategic Studies

‘a cogent and important study based on a

great deal of research.’

N. A. M. Rodger,

The Journal of Military History

As First Lord of the Admiralty from 1911

to 1915, and again from 1939, Churchill

had a defining impact on Britain’s naval

power in two world wars. And his

achievements as naval strategist, Bell

argues, have been undervalued.

PR: Chloe Foster

The Pursuitof the Nazi MindHitler, Hess, and the AnalystsDANIEL PICK, University of London

‘Fascinating ... an exceptionally rich and

thought-provoking book.’

Richard Overy, Literary Review

‘This is a terrific book ... soberly and clearly

written ... profoundly illuminating.’

Eli Zaretsky, Jewish Quarterly

Daniel Pick brings both the skills of the

historian and the trained psychoanalyst to

the story of how psychoanalysis was used

in the war against Nazi Germany in the

crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind.

PR: Dan Parker

See also Fascism: A Very Short Introduction,page 55, The Gestapo, page 10, and Burning theReichstag, page 14.

Six Momentsof CrisisInside British Foreign PolicyGILL BENNETT

‘Gill Bennett… takes us into Number 10

and the Cabinet room and we are

literally transported – we can see and

hear the people, feel the tension, and

hear the arguments.’

Peter Hennessy

Former Whitehall historian Gill Bennett

unravels the story of six crucial British

foreign policy challenges, from the Korean

War to the Falklands conflict, offering an

inside account of episodes that shaped

Britain’s position in the world for decades

to come – and in some cases still arouse

controversy to this day.

PR: Chloe Foster

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May 2014Paperback448 pp, 16 pp black and white plates, 234x153 mm, TA978-0-19-967850-1£14.99Available as an Ebook

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Jane Austen’s LettersEdited by DEIRDRE LE FAYE

‘Jane at her most direct ... a generous and comprehensive book.’

Max Davidson, Daily Telegraph

Jane Austen’s letters afford a unique insight

into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and

gossipy, observant and informative, they bring

alive her family and friends, her surroundings,

and contemporary events with a freshness

unparalleled in biography. This fourth edition

incorporates the findings of new scholarship

to enrich our understanding of her.

June 2014, Paperback, 688 pp, 216x135 mm, TA, 978-0-19-870449-2,

£16.99, Hardback, 978-0-19-957607-4, PR: Kirsty Doole

DebussyERIC FREDERICK JENSEN

The life and work of the master of impressionist music

Nearly one hundred years after Claude

Debussy’s death, his music has lost none of

its appeal. In this authoritative biography,

part of the acclaimed Master Musicians

series, Jensen brings together the most

recent biographical research, including a

revised catalogue of Debussy’s

compositions and the first complete edition of his

correspondence. The book is equally accessible for the reader

of biography, and to music students and musicians.

March 2014, Hardback, 368 pp, 15 halftones, 31 music examples,

234x156 mm, AC, 978-0-19-973005-6, £25.00, PR: Dan Parker

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978-0-19-995104-8£25.00

The Newton Papers The Strange Tale of the Documents of History’s Greatest ScientistSARAH DRY

Told for the first time – the story of Newton’s controversial legacy

When Isaac Newton died in 1727, he left a mass of disorganized papers – more than 8 million

words – that revealed him as heretical, alchemically obsessed, and possibly even unbalanced.

As a result, the private papers of the world’s greatest scientist remained hidden to all but a

select few. Sarah Dry has uncovered the extraordinary 300-year story of the disappearance,

dispersal and eventual rediscovery of the papers and of the eclectic group of collectors,

scholars, and scientists who tracked them down, from the economist John Maynard Keynes to

Abraham Yahuda, a key figure in the founding of Israel. Her enthralling book reveals Newton

as a man altogether stranger and more complicated than the genius of legend.

PR: Anna Silva

NEW IN PAPERBACK

February 2014Hardback304 pp, 10 colour plates, 30 blackand white halftones, 246x171 mm, TA978-0-19-960931-4£25.00Available as an Ebook

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Piero della FrancescaArtist and ManJAMES R. BANKER

The first full biography of one of the greatest Renaissance artists

Largely neglected for the four centuries after his death in 1492, the Italian artist Piero della

Francesca is now seen to embody the fullest expression of the Renaissance perspective

painter, with an artistic importance comparable with that of Leonardo da Vinci and

Michelangelo.

But who was he, and how did he become the person and artist that he was? Until now, these

questions have remained largely unanswered. James R. Banker puts that situation right,

integrating the story of Piero’s artistic and mathematical achievements with the full chronicle

of his life for the first time. Fortified by the discovery of over one hundred previously unknown

documents, most of which he unearthed himself, he presents us with Piero’s friends, family,

and collaborators, within the context of the various cities and courts in which he lived. We

gain fascinating insights into the artist’s life and development – from early masterpieces such

as the Baptism of Christ through to later, Flemish-influenced works such as the Nativity.

Banker addresses persistent myths about the year of Piero’s birth, and big questions about

the dates of some of his major works. He also presents a persuasive new interpretation of the

much-debated Flagellation of Christ.

Advance praise: ‘A superb study of Piero’s life, times and achievements.’

Donald Weinstein, author of Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet

PR: Anna Silva


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About the AuthorJAMES R. BANKER is Professor of History, Emeritus, North Carolina State

University, Raleigh, North Carolina. He is also the author of The Culture of

San Sepolcro During the Youth of Piero Della Francesca, described by

Burlington Magazine as ‘masterly’.

March 2013Hardback

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L ITERATURESelected FablesAn AnthologyJEAN DE LA FONTAINE

Translated by CHRISTOPHER BETTS

Illustrated by GUSTAVE DORÉ

‘Deceivers, you’re the target for my pen:

if you play tricks, you can expect the same.’

La Fontaine’s verse fables turned traditional folktales derived from Aesop and a range of

Oriental sources into some of the greatest, and best-loved, poetic work in French. His

versions of stories such as ‘The Hare and the Tortoise’ and ‘The Wolf and the Lamb’ are witty

and sophisticated, satirizing human nature in miniature dramas in which the outcome is

always unpredictable. The fables have long been popular with all ages, though their ironic

take on contemporary society in French aristocratic circles is best appreciated by adults.

Christopher Betts’s translations are notable for their sensitivity and sophistication, and his

impressive new translation of La Fontaine matches the original in inventiveness and

subtlety. This edition includes half of the fables first published in twelve books between

1668 and 1693, across the full range of subjects and themes. The fables are illustrated with

a selection of Gustave Doré’s majestic engravings, and an introduction offers insights into

La Fontaine’s life and literary artistry.

PR: Kirsty Doole

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About the EditorCHRISTOPHER BETTS was Senior Lecturer in the French Department at the

University of Warwick. He has translated Montesquieu’s Persian Letters and

Rousseau’s Social Contract, and in 2009 published an acclaimed translation

of Perrault’s The Complete Fairy Tales.

NEW TRANSLATION

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The Compleat AnglerIZAAK WALTON and CHARLES COTTON

Edited by MARJORIE SWANN

‘I envy no body but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do.’

The Compleat Angler is the most famous book ever published in the literature of sport. It is

also a work whose unique celebration of the English countryside has won it many admirers.

Izaak Walton issued the final version of his beloved book in 1676, accompanied by Charles

Cotton’s pioneering exploration of fly-fishing. It is both a manual of instruction and a vision

of society in harmony with nature. It guides the novice fisherman on every aspect of

fishing: how to catch and cook a variety of fish, on how to select and prepare the best bait

and make artificial flies, and on the habits of freshwater fish. It also promotes angling as a

communal activity in which the bonds of friendship are forged through shared experience

of the natural world.

Walton lived through turbulent times, and found in nature the best salve for national

tragedy and personal sorrow. His writing embraces literature, poetry, anecdote, and a

commitment to conservation. It also encodes his passionate royalist Anglican sympathies

in the aftermath of the Civil War.

This new edition, illustrated with contemporary line drawings, is the first to highlight the

book’s importance as an influential and provocative meditation on humanity’s relationship

to the environment.

PR: Kirsty Doole

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About the EditorMARJORIE SWANN grew up fishing for perch and pike on St Joseph Island,

Ontario. With degrees from Queen’s University and Oxford, she is now

Associate Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. She is

currently writing a book about Walton’s Compleat Angler and its post-

seventeenth-century afterlives.

April 2014Hardback

176 pp, 13 wood engravings,196x129 mm, TA

978-0-19-967222-6£12.99

Published to mark the 150thanniversary of John Clare’s death

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in EnglishEdited by JEREMY NOEL-TOD, University of East Anglia, and IAN HAMILTON

‘Indispensable.’ John Sutherland, The Sunday Times

The impressive new edition of this classic Companion, first published as The Oxford Companion to

Twentieth Century Poetry, provides over 1,500 biographical entries on poets writing in English, in Britain

and around the world, from 1910 to the present day. It illuminates the influences, inspirations, and

movements that have shaped the lives and works of our best-loved poets. A-Z biographies are

complemented by new appendices including coverage of poetry events, poetry prizes and prize-

winners. Many entries include details of in-depth supplementary material available online on the

dedicated companion website. Compiled by a team of 230 experts, including Blake Morrison and

Andrew Motion, it is accessible and authoritative – a must-have for anyone with an interest in poetry.

PR: Kirsty Doole

The Shepherd’s CalendarJOHN CLARE

Edited by ERIC ROBINSON, DAVID POWELL, and GEOFFREY SUMMERFIELD

The only hardback gift edition of Clare’s masterpiece – illustrated by David Gentleman

A century and a half after his death, John Clare is regarded as one of the greatest English

Romantic poets – The Shepherd’s Calendar is his masterpiece. A classic of English poetry, it

is also a fascinating work of social history, recording long-vanished aspects of nineteenth-

century rural life. The poem provides a calendar of the country year – ploughing in February,

lambing in March, hay-making in June – punctuated by celebrations and festivals, such as

May Day games, sheep-shearing feasts, Harvest Home, and Christmas. Rooted in popular

culture, the poem has many vivid descriptions of the flowers, birds, and beasts of the

hedgerow and field. This beautiful gift edition with ribbon marker is charmingly illustrated

with wood engravings by David Gentleman.

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L ITERATURENE W IN PAPERBACKThe New Oxford Book

of War Poetry Edited by JON STALLWORTHY

Reviews of the first edition

‘Full of good things...many old favourites and quite a few genuine surprises.’

Vernon Scannell, The Guardian

‘Quite simply the most rewardingly catholic anthology of battle verse.’

Times Educational Supplement

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful

feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy’s classic anthology spans centuries of human experience of

conflict, from David’s Lament for Saul and Jonathan and Homer’s Iliad to the finest poems of

the First and Second World Wars, and beyond. The roll-call of writers is huge – more than 150

– and the arc of the book charts a great shift in human awareness from man’s early

celebratory ‘war-songs’ to the twentieth century’s darker poetic responses to ‘man’s

inhumanity to man’. Here are Virgil and Chaucer, Spenser and Donne, Marvell and Dryden;

Coleridge, Shelley and Browning; Hugo, Whitman, and Rilke, as well as the whole sweep of

twentieth-century writers.

Ten years on from the first edition, Jon Stallworthy has now included more poems on the

wars of the twentieth century. The 42 additional poems include works by David Harsent,

Anthony Hecht, Miroslav Holub, John Jarmain, Stanley Kunitz, Michael Longley, Czeslaw

Milosz, Andrew Motion, and Patrick Shaw-Stewart.

PR: Kirsty Doole

June 2014Hardback390 pp, 196x129 mm, TA978-0-19-870447-8£16.99

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L ITERATURE

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About the EditorJON STALLWORTHY is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of

Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, an acclaimed poet and

literary critic, and biographer of Wilfred Owen.

NE W EDI TI ON

June 2014 Hardback

400 pp, 234x156 mm, TA978-0-19-967453-4

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PHILOSOPHYClassical PhilosophyA History of Philosophy Without Any GapsPETER ADAMSON

A unique history of thought

‘In an undergraduate philosophy course, you might reasonably expect to jump from Aristotle to,

perhaps, Descartes, leaping over about 2000 years of history in the process. A more enlightened

approach might include looking at Thomas Aquinas, in the 13th century – still omitting the better

part of two millennia.’ Peter Adamson

In his ‘History of Philosophy without any gaps’ podcasts, Peter Adamson fulfils his dream of

offering the whole picture of the history of thought, and not just the famous bits. Classical

Philosophy is the first of a series of books to be based on these acclaimed podcasts in which

Adamson will present a complete history of philosophy more thoroughly, but also more

enjoyably, than ever before.

In the first volume, short, lively, conversational chapters with vivid examples offer an accessible,

humorous, and detailed look at the emergence of philosophy, from Thales to Aristotle. Along the

way, we meet a fascinating range of individuals and schools – Anaximander, Xenophanes,

Parmenides, the Eleatics, The Atomists, the Hippocratic Corpus, and the Platonic Academy.

This is a new kind of history that assumes no prior knowledge, which makes it ideal for those

who wants to read philosophy for pleasure. It will bring the extraordinary history of thought to life

for all readers, including those coming to the subject for the first time.

PR: Dan Parker

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About the AuthorPETER ADAMSON is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München. An American by birth, he taught

for ten years at the London School of Economics. He has published widely in

ancient and medieval philosophy, especially on Neoplatonism and on

philosophy in the Islamic world.

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L ITERATUREA Will to BelieveShakespeare and ReligionDAVID SCOTT KASTAN, Yale University

A provocative new account of the Bard’s faith

Religion was inescapable in Shakespeare’s England, but its place in his life and art is

ambiguous. The plays have usually been seen either as evidence of Shakespeare’s own

disinterested secularism or, more recently, as coded signposts to his own sectarian

commitments. Based upon the inaugural series of the Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures,

A Will to Believe offers a thoughtful, surprising, and often moving consideration of how

religion actually functions in his dramas. It shows what we know and can't know about

Shakespeare’s own beliefs, and demonstrates, in a series of wonderfully alert and agile

readings, how the often fraught and vertiginous religious environment of Post-Reformation

England gets refracted by the lens of Shakespeare’s imagination.

PR: Kirsty Doole

The Cold of May Day MondayAn Approach to Irish Literary HistoryROBERT ANTHONY WELCH

A new history of Irish literature by one of its major scholars

Robert Anthony Welch, who died in 2013, was one of Ireland’s most important scholars – a

poet, novelist, playwright, critic, and editor of The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature.

The Cold of May Day Monday is his long-awaited account of one of the most interesting

literary histories in the world, that of his homeland. He reveals the story of Irish literature

from its very earliest phases up to the present day, framing his study around themes and

clusters rather than chronology, seeking to retain coherence by means of a sustained

attention to the thematic strains. He concludes by discussing his contemporaries –

Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, John McGahern, and John Banville.

PR: Kirsty Doole

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Hardback: 978-0-19-969300-9



PhilosophyBites BackDAVID EDMUNDS, Oxford University,and NIGEL WARBURTON, OpenUniversity

27 leading philosophers on the most important thinkers in Westernthought

In this collection of lively interviews

derived fom the hugely successful

podcast Philosophy Bites, leading

philosophers of our time discuss the

ideas and works of some of the most

important thinkers in history. From the

ancient classics to ground-breaking

modern thought, and from happiness

and love in ancient Greece to truth and

forgiveness in the twentieth century, this

volume spans over two and a half

millennia of western philosophy and

illuminates its most fascinating ideas.

PR: Dan Parker

Being Realistic aboutReasonsT. M. SCANLON, Harvard University

One of the world’s leadingphilosophers brings new insights to reason

Is what we have reason to do a matter of

fact? If so, what kind of truth is involved,

how can we know it, and how do reasons

motivate and explain action? In this book

based on his prestigious Locke Lectures,

Thomas Scanlon offers answers, with a

qualified defense of normative cognitivism

– the view that there are normative truths

about reasons for action. This is a highly

original work by one of the world’s leading

moral philosophers.

PR: Hannah McGuffie

Beyond ArtDOMINIC MCIVER LOPES, Universityof British Columbia

A radical and original treatment ofart and aesthetics

This book offers a bold new approach to

the philosophy of art. General theories of

art don’t work, argues Dominic McIver

Lopes, because they can’t deal with

problem cases. Instead he articulates

and defends a ‘buck-passing theory of

art’, namely that a work of art is nothing

but a work in one of the arts. Written not

just for philosophers but for theorists of

art, music, or literature, Beyond Art

discusses a wide range of works from

contemporary arts and culture.

PR: Andrew Allen

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PHILOSOPHYPhilosophy at 3:AMQuestions and Answers with 25 PhilosophersRICHARD MARSHALL

Leading modern philosophers explain their ideas

Richard Marshall is a contributing editor to the fashionable online cultural magazine

3ammagazine.com. In 2011, he set himself the task of bringing philosophy to his readers who

were not philosophers but who were eager to know more. His interviews with prominent

thinkers about why they chose to enter the field and on their own ideas have become

something of a legend. This book brings together his favourite 25 articles, 18 by men and 7

by women. They encompass giants of the field, such as Kit Fine and Jerry Fodor, alongside

many emerging younger philosophers. Serious, fun, thoughtful and thought-provoking, the

interviews invite anyone with a hunger for philosophical questions to engage with the ideas.

It is a wonderful showcase for philosophy as it is practiced today.

PR: Dan Parker

ChangeWhat Really Leads to Lasting Personal TransformationJEFFREY A. KOTTLER, California State University

It’s never too late to change your life

Why do we suddenly change for the better after years of failed efforts? Why do some of us

never escape our self-destructive behaviours even when we desperately want to? And what

is it that most reliably and effectively produces growth, learning and development that

persist over time? Jeffrey A. Kottler is an accomplished therapist and author who believes he

has the answers to these questions. He weaves together inspiring stories and the latest

research, taking the reader on a fascinating exploration of human behaviour while

highlighting what does – and does not – lead to lasting change. Throughout the book

Kottler recounts stories of colleagues and patients whose tales of remarkable, unexpected,

and lasting transformation enthrall and move.

PR: Dan Parker

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SCIENCEThe Improbable PrimateHow water shaped human evolutionCLIVE FINLAYSON

New insights into the course of human evolution

A primate that walks on two legs, is naked and has a taste for meat – humankind really is a

highly remarkable species. The Improbable Primate tells the extraordinary story of how we

got to be that way.

At the heart of the story is water – the critical factor that Clive Finlayson believes has shaped

us. He argues that our ancestors carved a niche for themselves by leaving the forest and

forcing their way into a long-established community of carnivores in a tropical savannah, as

climate changes opened up the landscape. They took their chance at high noon, when most

other predators were asleep, and so avoided competition or being eaten by the large cats and

hyenas. Adapting to this new lifestyle involved shedding their hair and developing an active

sweating system to keep cool. Being close to fresh water was critical, and as the climate dried

our ancestors, already bipedal, became taller and slimmer, more adept at travelling farther.

The challenges of seeking water in a drying landscape moulded the minds and bodies of early

humans, and directed their migrations and eventual settlements.

This ground-breaking book presents a fresh and provocative view of a seven-million-year

evolutionary journey. It has radical implications for the interpretation of fossils and

technologies, of the spread of early humans, and of the emergence and domination of

homo sapiens.

PR: Kate Farquhar-Thomson

About the AuthorCLIVE FINLAYSON is Director of the Gibraltar Museum and Adjunct Professor at

the University of Toronto. His previous book for OUP, The Humans Who Went

Extinct, was described by the Independent as ‘revelatory’.

March 2014Hardback


978-0-19-965879-4£16.99


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SCIENCELife UnfoldingHow the human body creates itselfJAMIE A. DAVIES

The journey from egg to human

Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right

one? How do boys become different from girls? How did each of the ten trillion cells in my

body know how to become the part it is?

The picture now emerging of the extraordinary journey from a single fertilized egg to the

complexity of a human being draws not only on embryology and genetics, but on ideas

from physics, networks, and control theory. The central principle is that of ‘adaptive self-

organization’: individual cells do not need to know where they are in the plan, they just

respond to local cues, organizing themselves into tissues and interconnecting systems,

correcting errors as they go along. From the application of a few relatively simple

behaviours, orchestrated and regulated by layers of genes and their proteins in

combination with basic physical principles, layer upon layer of complexity arises of its

own accord.

Life Unfolding brings the results of this area of intense current research to the lay reader,

showing how our whole understanding of how we come to be has been transformed in

recent years. This is modern biology at its most exciting. The resulting insights are already

having a profound impact on medicine.


About the AuthorJAMIE A. DAVIES is Professor of Experimental Anatomy at the University of

Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Institute of Biologists, of the Royal Society of

Medicine, and of the Higher Education Academy. He is also Editor-in-Chief of

the journal, Organogenesis.

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One Plus One Equals OneSymbiosis and the evolution of complex life JOHN ARCHIBALD, Dalhousie University

How molecular biology is uncovering the strange origins of complex life

The latest tools of molecular biology enable us to investigate the living world in ways

unimaginable a few decades ago. One Plus One Equals One focuses on an area in which our

understanding has been revolutionized: the mechanisms of evolution which led to the

development of complex life more than three billion years ago. All living organisms use the

same molecular processes to replicate their genetic material and the same basic code to

'read' their genes; the similarities can be seen in their DNA. John Archibald shows how from

the very beginning evolution has been 'plugging-and-playing' with the subcellular

components of life in a process of microbial mergers and acquisitions. He tells the story of

how we have come to this realization and its implications.


The Fourth Revolution How the infosphere is reshaping human realityLUCIANO FLORIDI, University of Oxford

Online, offline, onlife

Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi argues that the explosive

developments in Information and Communication Technologies is changing the answer to

these fundamental human questions. Life online and life offline are coalescing into ‘onlife’ –

the new reality of how we work, shop, learn, communicate; how we connect with law,

finance, health, and politics; even the way we conduct war. Humans, Floridi asserts, are now

just one part of an 'infosphere'. Following those led by Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud, this

metaphysical shift represents nothing less than a fourth revolution. How can we ensure that

we shall reap the benefits? What are the implicit risks? Are our technologies going to enable

and empower us, or constrain us?

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The Amoeba in the RoomLives of the MicrobesNICHOLAS P. MONEY

Invisible rulers of our planet

Animals and plants rule the world – or do they? A cup of seawater contains 100 million cells

which are preyed upon by billions of viruses; a pinch of soil swarms with cryptic microbes

whose activities are a mystery; 50 million tons of fungal spores are released into the

atmosphere every year and affect the weather; and human beings are mobile ecosystems

that farm, and are farmed by, vast populations of bacteria and viruses involved with almost

every aspect of our wellbeing. Microorganisms are the vast, unnoticed, unmentioned

‘elephants in the room’ of planet earth.

The more we learn about microbial biodiversity, the less important do animals and plants

become in our understanding life on earth. The flowering of microbial science is

revolutionizing biology and medicine in ways unimagined even a decade or two ago, and is

inspiring a new view of what it means to be human. Nicholas Money explores the

extraordinary breadth of the microbial world and the vast swathes of biological diversity

that can be detected only by using molecular methods. He argues for nothing less than a

revolution in our perception of the living world: the big lumbering forms we see are just

froth on a vast ocean of protists, bacteria, and viruses that constitute most of life on earth.


About the AuthorNICHOLAS P. MONEY is Professor of Botany and Western Program Director

at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of a number of works

including Mushroom, described by Nature magazine as a ‘brilliant scientific

and cultural exploration’.

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The Origin of IdeasBlending, Creativity, and the Human SparkMARK TURNER, Case Western Reserve University

The first general work on a major new theory in cognitive science

It is humankind’s ability to innovate that sets our species apart from other animals. Mark

Turner is the co-founder of ‘conceptual blending’, a theory that proposes that the source of

this ability is our unique capacity to take two ideas or more and create a new one by

‘blending’, almost without effort and usually unconsciously. This important book is the first

to present the ground-breaking theory of ‘blending’ in detail for both a general audience

and scholars. Both controversial and provocative, it claims that it was our virtuosity in

‘blending’ that gave us a unique idea-generating tool that took us from being just a group of

large mammals to world domination.

PR: Lauren Small

DruggedThe Science and Culture Behind Psychotropic DrugsRICHARD J. MILLER, Northwestern University

The only complete guide to all classes of psychotropic drugs

The vast array of chemicals that can cross the blood-brain barrier is literally mind-boggling:

cannabis and cocaine, morphine and heroin, mescaline and LSD, alcohol, amphetamines,

Ecstasy – and many more. In Drugged, Richard Miller takes readers on an eye-opening tour

of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and

developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture. Entertaining

and authoritative, the book brims with surprises: it reveals that antidepressant drugs

evolved from the rocket fuel that shot V2 rockets into London during World War II; it

highlights the role of hallucinogens in the history of religion; and it asks whether Prozac can

help depressed cats! This is a truly fascinating book.

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Cancer VirusThe story of Epstein-Barr VirusDOROTHY H. CRAWFORD, INGÓLFUR JOHANNESSEN, both University ofEdinburgh, and ALAN B. RICKINSON, University of Birmingham

How the first human cancer virus was discovered

The idea of a human cancer virus was shocking enough when the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)

was discovered fifty years ago, but the story proved stranger still. Almost everyone, it turns

out, carries EBV. Only under some circumstances does it cause disease. What’s more, EBV

produces seemingly unrelated ailments in different populations: a cancer of the jaw in African

children, a cancer of post-nasal passages in the Far East, Hodgkin’s Disease and glandular

fever in the West. Written by three leading virologists working on EBV, this book is an exciting

detective story, recounting how the clues emerged through luck, serendipity, and the

imagination and dedicated work of a cast of scientists spanning the world.


SuperintelligenceThe Coming Machine Intelligence RevolutionNICK BOSTROM, University of Oxford

Intelligent machines – pipe dream or real threat?

If machine brains come to surpass human brains as ours surpass those of other animals, then

they could become as powerful relative to us as we are to other animals. Such extreme levels

of machine intelligence – superintelligence – would potentially be in a position to shape the

future. What happens to humanity (whether humanity would even survive) would then depend

on the goals of the superintelligence. The possibility of a machine intelligence revolution is

therefore an extremely important topic. Perhaps it is the most important topic...

This groundbreaking book places superintelligence in the mainstream of both scholarly and

popular consciousness and shows us how to protect humanity against its risks.


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The Proust Effect The Senses as Doorways toLost Memories CRETIEN VAN CAMPEN, NetherlandsInstitute for Social Research andWindesheim University of AppliedSciences

How our senses can trigger memories

The best-known example of the power of

the senses to evoke memories is in

Marcel Proust’s novel Swann’s Way.

Cretien van Campen throws new light on

why sense memories are special and

how they work in the brain. Exploring the

senses in thought-provoking scientific

experiments and artistic projects, he

offers new insights into memory – drawn

from neuroscience, the arts, and

professions such as education, elderly

care, health care therapy and the

culinary profession.


Cracking the ParticleCode of the UniverseJOHN MOFFAT, University of Toronto

What if there is no Higgs Boson...

John Moffat is one of a small minority in the

field of physics who believes that there is

no Higgs Boson particle. He is also of the

opinion that extra dimensions of space do

not exist as verifiable phenomena,

supersymmetry is a nice mathematical

construct, and there is no such thing as

dark matter. In Cracking the Particle Code

of the Universe he turns today’s theories on

their heads and explores some highly

intriguing alternatives.

PR: Hannah McGuffie

Nuclear DawnF. E. Simon and the Race forAtomic Weapons in WorldWar IIKENNETH D. MCRAE, CarletonUniversity, Ottawa

The first full biography of a keyfigure in the creation of the atomic bomb

This is the first full biography of

Franz (later Sir Francis) Simon (1893-

1956), a German-born Jewish scientist

who made a major contribution to the

creation of the atomic bomb. From

Simon’s early years, through his move to

Oxford in 1933 to escape the Nazi threat,

and his important, experimental

contributions to low-temperature physics,

it provides many new insights. The book is

based on important, new source

materials, such as Simon’s diary and

correspondence with his wife, that were

not available to previous researchers.

PR: Hannah McGuffie

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Warriors and WorriersThe Survival of the SexesJOYCE F. BENENSON, Emmanuel College, with HENRY MARKOVITS, University of Quebec

Sexual stereotypes turned upside down

Based on thirty years of research, Warriors and Worriers presents a new theory of sex

differences that focuses on the different ways in which men and women ensure their survival.

Boys and men have strategies to deter their enemies, while girls and women find assistants

to aid them in coping with vulnerable children and elders; males form cooperative groups that

compete against out-groups, while human females exclude other females in their quest to

find mates. Such differences, contends psychologist Joyce Benenson, produce different social

worlds for each sex. In this enthralling exploration, Benenson turns upside down the familiar

wisdom that women are more sociable than men and that men are more competitive than

women.

PR: Dan Parker

The Science of CheeseMICHAEL H. TUNICK, U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service

The surprising science of cheesemaking

There are more than 2,000 varieties of cheese but few of us understand the scientific

alchemy, involving chemistry, biology, and physics, that turns milk into an astonishing variety

of delicious foods. As a researcher who creates cheeses, Michael H. Tunick is superbly

equipped to present the technical science behind creating a new cheese. His new book takes

us back in time to some 8000 years ago to show us how cheese was first made. He then

explores how this led to other forms of cheese: Gorgonzola (first noted in AD 879), Roquefort

(AD 1070), Cheddar (AD 1500), and many more. Food scientists, amateur cheesemakers, and

cheese lovers will all value this unique and wonderfully interesting book.

PR: Dan Parker

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May 2014Hardback296 pp, 13 black andwhite illustrations,216x138 mm, 13 black and whiteillustrations, AE978-0-19-870261-0£18.99Available as an Ebook

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Faith and Wisdom in ScienceTOM MCLEISH, University of Durham

Science can be a deeply religious activity

Faith and Wisdom in Science takes a

much-needed new approach to the

‘science and religion’ debate. Tom

McLeish presents a scientist’s reading of

the enigmatic and beautiful Book of Job

as his centrepiece, and uses it to make

the case for science as a deeply human

and ancient activity, embedded in some

of the oldest stories told about the

human desire to understand the natural

world. He insists that rather than

debating ‘science and theology’ we need

both a ‘science of theology’ and a

‘theology of science’.

PR: Dan Parker

What is Life?How chemistry becomesbiologyADDY PROSS, Ben-Gurion University ofthe Negev

‘A lucid, thoughtful, and accessible

exploration of the very foundations of

that most exquisite and extraordinary

property of matter, life.’

Peter Atkins

‘A stimulating and thought-provoking

read.’

Chemistry World

Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrödinger

posed a profound question: ‘What is life,

and how did it emerge from non-life?’

Scientists have puzzled over it ever since.

Addy Pross uses insights from the new

field of systems chemistry to show how

chemistry can become biology, and that

Darwinian evolution is the expression of a

deeper physical principle.


DiscordThe Story of NoiseMIKE GOLDSMITH, National PhysicalLaboratory

‘A spectacularly good book..’

New Scientist

‘A treasure trove of curious facts and

anecdotes ... extremely attractive and

accessible, well-written and engaging.’

Peter Pesic, American Scientist

As humankind creates ever more noise,

the battle to manage and control it

intensifies. Mike Goldsmith considers the

long history of the battle between people

and noise, explaining the science and

physiology, and exploring how new

scientific approaches may affect the

future of sound. He also looks at how

discord and dissonance are put to use in

music, medicine, and even the military.

PR: Chloe Foster

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January 2014Hardback368 pp, 10 colourillustrations, 77 black andwhite illustrations,246x189 mm, AE978-0-19-966437-5£39.99Available as an Ebook

James Clerk MaxwellPerspectives on his Life and WorkEdited by RAYMOND FLOOD, Gresham College, MARK MCCARTNEY,University of Ulster, and ANDREW WHITAKER, Queen’sUniversity Belfast

The first work to fully revealMaxwell’s multiple talents

After Newton and Einstein, James Clerk

Maxwell (1831 -1879) is a contender for

the title of most important mathematical

physicist. But, as this book shows, there

was much more to Maxwell than his work

on electromagnetism, both in terms of his

science and his wider life. This new

account gives a range of physicists,

mathematicians, and historians of science

and literature the chance to do him

justice, revealing among much else

Maxwell’s wider work on many aspects of

science, his poetry, and his Christian faith.

PR: Hannah McGuffie

50 Visions ofMathematicsEdited by SAM PARC, Institute ofMathematics and Its Applications

50 original articles celebrate asparkling half century of the IMA

Here is a book that is designed to showcase

the beauty of mathematics without frying your

brain! Published to celebrate the 50th

anniversary of the founding of the Institute of

Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), it

contains 50 articles by some of the best writers

on maths, such as Marcus du Sautoy, Simon

Singh and Ian Stewart. The topics covered are

deliberately diverse, from simple numerology

to the very cutting edge of mathematics

research. Highly illustrated, the book also

includes 50 pictorial ‘visions of mathematics’.

PR: Hannah McGuffie

See also The Concise Oxford Dictionary of

Mathematics, page 59.

The Man in theMonkeynut CoatWilliam Astbury and theForgotten Road to theDouble-HelixKERSTEN T. HALL, University of Leeds

Forgotten pioneer with a pivotal rolein DNA discovery

Isaac Newton declared that his

momentous discoveries were made

thanks to having ‘stood on the shoulders

of giants’. The same might be said of DNA

pioneers James Watson, Francis Crick, and

Rosalind Franklin, because it was scientist

William T. Astbury (1898-1961) who

pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography

essential to their work. Astbury has

largely, and quite unjustly, been forgotten,

but this book now rights that wrong by

revealing the story of this neglected genius

who also led the field in the powerful new

science of molecular biology.


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By All Means NecessaryHow China’s Resource Quest is Changing the WorldELIZABETH C. ECONOMY and MICHAEL LEVI, both Council on Foreign Relations

The first full account of China’s race to acquire raw materials

The last twenty-five years has seen China transformed from an impoverished country to one

with more millionaires than anywhere else in the world. In the beginning, that growth was

fuelled by internal resources, but now China has been forced to look outward to find the

massive quantities of resources it needs. It is now engaged in a quest around the world for

fuel, water, and land for farming, while the country’s military secures sea lanes and focuses

on advanced military technologies to protect its interests abroad. Clear, authoritative, and

provocative, By All Means Necessary is the first comprehensive account of the likely impact

of China’s pursuit of raw materials in the coming years – a crucial issue, not just for China,

but for the whole world.


The Locust EffectWhy the End of Poverty Requires the End of ViolenceGARY A. HAUGEN and VICTOR BOUTROS, both University of Chicago Law School

The first book on the key role of violence in perpetuating poverty

If people aren’t safe, nothing else matters. Corrupt police forces, out-of-control armies, private

militias, organized criminals, and failed justice systems: all plague poor countries. Gary Haugen

and Victor Boutros use real-world stories from countries ranging from Thailand to Bolivia and

India to Nigeria to show how violence undercuts antipoverty efforts. Drawing upon their

experience running the International Justice Mission, they show that ground-up efforts to

reform legal and public justice systems can generate real, positive results. Sweeping in

geographical scope and filled with unforgettable stories of individuals trapped within the

mutually reinforcing cycle of poverty and violence, The Locust Effect will force us to rethink

what we know about the causes of poverty and why it is so difficult to root out.


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WrongNine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn from ThemRICHARD S. GROSSMAN, Wesleyan University

How ideology rather than economics causes financial crises

The Irish famine, the Great Depression, Japan’s lost decade of the 1990s, Lehman Brothers and

the American subprime crisis ... What is it that sparks such vast economic calamities? Why do

our economic policy makers fail to protect us from such upheavals? Writing for a wide

audience, economist Richard Grossman shines a light on the poor thinking behind nine of the

worst economic policy mistakes of the past 200 years, telling the story behind each

misconceived economic move, explaining why the policy was adopted, how it was

implemented, and its short- and long-term consequences. In each case, he shows that the main

culprits were policy makers who were guided by ideology rather than economics.


The Euro-Crisis and Its AftermathJEAN PISANI-FERRY, Université Paris-Dauphine Translated by CHRISTOPHE GOUARDO

Understanding the economics of the Euro

‘This is not a book for economists, because the time when the pros and cons of European

monetary unification were topics for controversies between economists only has long passed’

writes Jean Pisani-Ferry. As chief economic advisor to the Prime Minister of France and former

director of the Brussels-based economic think tank, Bruegel, he has been at the forefront of

debate about the travails of the euro area. He is excellently placed to write this book which

aims to help non-economists decipher the euro crisis and form their opinions about potential

solutions. Not only does he make sense of the crisis itself, he also scrutinizes and evaluates the

chief alternative proposals for ending it.


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Business StrategyManaging Uncertainty,Opportunity, and EnterpriseJOHN-CHRISTOPHER SPENDER,Universität Ramon Llull

CEOs are the key to better

business strategy

Drawing on a wide range of ideas from

strategy, economics, entrepreneurship and

philosophy, John-Christopher. Spender

develops an exciting new approach to

business strategy. He argues that a key

element of both an entrepreneur’s and an

executive's task is to engage chosen

uncertainties, develop a language to

express the firm’s particular business

model for dealing with them, and thus

create innovation and value. The book is

an important contribution to the field of

management studies.

PR: Andrew Allen

Is the Planet Full?Edited by IAN GOLDIN, University ofOxford

The most wide-ranging exploration

available of a planet-sized problem

Can our planet support the demands of

the ten billion people anticipated to be

the world’s population by the middle of

this century? Can we harness the

potential benefits brought by a healthier,

wealthier and larger population? In this

book, ten scholars, each of whom is a

leader in their own discipline, attempt to

answer these questions. By offering a

variety of different lenses through which

to view this overwhelmingly important

topic, the book is able to challenge

commonplace assumptions and bring

important new insights.

PR: Chloe Foster

DividedNationsWhy global governance isfailing, and what we can doabout itIAN GOLDIN, University of Oxford

‘A state-of-the-art view of contemporary

issues in global cooperation.’

Dries Lesage,

Times Higher Education Supplement

It is becoming increasingly apparent that

the UN, IMF, and World Bank are

inadequate to the task of managing

today’s emergencies like climate change,

pandemics, cybersecurity, and migration.

Former Vice President of the World Bank,

Ian Goldin explores whether the answer is

to reform the existing structures or to

consider a new approach. He highlights

the challenges that we must overcome and

considers a road map for the future.

PR: Chloe Foster

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CURRENT AFFAIRSThe Cultivation of TasteChefs and the Organization of Fine DiningCHRISTEL LANE, University of Cambridge

What makes a Michelin-starred restaurant?

Britain was once a culinary desert, but in recent years it has experienced an explosion of interest

in food, cooking, and dining out. Christel Lane’s book charts the process of this transformation

through her enthralling new comparative study of Michelin-starred restaurants in Britain and

Germany, both countries which have no indigenous ‘haute cuisine’ but nevertheless maintain a

great interest in fine dining. It draws on a large number of interviews with renowned chefs,

diners, and Michelin inspectors to bring the reader an unprecedented insight into what goes on

in Michelin-starred restaurants – what makes their chefs tick, intrigues their critics, and beguiles

or annoys their customers. Lane presents restaurants as not simply businesses but as cultural

enterprises that shape our taste in food, ambience, and sociality.

PR: Andrew Allen

Nature in the BalanceThe Economics of BiodiversityEdited by DIETER HELM, University of Oxford and CAMERON HEPBURN, LondonSchool of Economics

Putting a price on biodiversity protection

Whilst there has been an enormous growth in research focus on climate change, less

attention has been paid to biodiversity. In Nature in the Balance twenty-six leading scholars

from the areas of economics, philosophy, and conservation biology set out the building

blocks of an economic approach to biodiversity, and in particular bring together conceptual

and empirical work on valuation, international agreements, policy instruments, and

institutions. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues and evidence, and

suggests how this very urgent problem should be addressed. While focusing on the

economics, it incorporates the underpinning science and philosophy, combining the

application of a number of theoretical ideas with a series of policy cases.

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CURRENT AFFAIRSModern GreeceWhat Everyone Needs to KnowSTATHIS KALYVAS, Yale University

Just a few years ago, Greece appeared to be

a politically secure nation with a healthy

economy. Today, the country is at the centre

of Europe’s economic maelstrom. Stathis

Kalyvas shows how and why this has

happened, and makes important

connections between the present turmoil

and the deeper past that have brought the country to where it

is today.

June 2014, Paperback Original, 240 pp, 210x140 mm, TA, 978-0-19-994879-6,

£10.99, PR: Chloe Foster

JapanWhat Everyone Needs to KnowR. TAGGART MURPHY, University of Tsukuba

A quarter-century ago, Tokyo’s stock

exchange was bigger than New York’s. Now,

the country is seen as a has-been with a

sluggish economy, an aging population, and

dysfunctional politics. Should we care about

Japan? R. Taggart Murphy replies

resoundingly in the affirmative in his concise

yet penetrating overview of the country from a historical,

social, political, economic, and cultural perspective.

June 2014, Paperback Original, 336 pp, 210x140 mm, TA, 978-0-19-984600-9,


Economic Development What Everyone Needs to KnowMARCELO GIUGALE, World Bank

Marcelo Giugale tackles the major

challenges of economic development,

illlustrating his account with real-life

examples from all over the globe. He looks

at a host of topics including the reasons why

seemingly obvious reforms never happen,

power dynamics between governments and

beneficiaries, government corruption, state violence, natural

resources, and globalization and trade.

March 2014, Paperback Original, 176 pp, 210x140 mm, TA, 978-0-19-932814-7,


Cybersecurity and CyberwarWhat Everyone Needs to KnowPETER W. SINGER and ALLAN FRIEDMAN, both at theBrookings Institution

Peter W. Singer and Allan Friedman team up to

provide the kind of easy-to-read, yet deeply

informative, resource book that has been

missing on this crucial issue of 21st-century

life. Written in a lively, accessible style, filled

with engaging stories and illustrative

anecdotes, the book is structured around the

key question areas of cyberspace and its security: how it all works,

why it all matters, and what we can do?

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May 2014Paperback208 pp, 210x140 mm, TA978-0-19-936030-7£10.99

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Lethal But LegalCorporations, Consumption,and Protecting Public HealthNICHOLAS FREUDENBERG, HunterCollege School of Public Health

How big business could be making

us ill

It is a scary fact that decisions made by the

food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical,

gun, and automobile industries have a

greater impact on today’s health than the

decisions of scientists and policymakers.

Lethal But Legal examines how

corporations have impacted upon public

health over the last century. Although there

are some positive stories to tell,

Freudenberg’s research reveals, in

particular, the connection between

unhealthy products, business-dominated

politics, and the growing burdens of

disease and health-care costs.

PR: Chloe Foster

How theEconomy WorksConfidence, Crashes andSelf-Fulfilling PropheciesROGER E. A. FARMER, UCLA

‘In the morass of me-too books about

the financial crisis, How the Economy

Works stands out as a truly big idea.’

Bloomberg Businessweek

One of our leading economists provides a

jargon-free exploration of the current crisis,

and an innovative new theory about how

individuals behave that will help us out of

it. From Keynesian economics, he adopts

the principle that markets do not always

work well, and that capitalism needs some

guidance. The goal, he writes, is to correct

the excesses of a free-market economy

without stifling entrepreneurship and

instituting central planning. This paperback

edition has a new preface bringing the

book up to date.


Venezuela What Everyone Needs to KnowMIGUEL TINKER-SALAS

Oil-rich nation increasingly

important on the world stage

Venezuela is among the top ten oil

exporters in the world. In this concise,

accessible introduction, Miguel Tinker-

Salas – a native of the country who has

written extensively about it – takes a

broadly chronological approach to its

history but keeps oil and its effects on the

country’s politics, economy, culture, and

international relations his central focus. He

also provides a detailed discussion of

Hugo Chávez – his rise to power, his

domestic, political and economic policies,

and his high-profile forays into

international relations.

PR: Chloe Foster

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Book SmartHow to Support Successful,Motivated ReadersANNE E. CUNNINGHAM, Universityof California, Berkeley, andJAMIE ZIBULSKY, Fairleigh DickinsonUniversity

Jumpstart the careers of successfulearly readers

Reading aloud to and with young children

is a crucial way in which parents and

carers can foster the social and emotional

development of children – and it is also a

lot of fun. Written by two psychologists

and educators, this book is a how-to

guide rich with stories, lessons, and

activities providing multiple suggestions

for simple and playful ways to build

specific reading skills. A highly

informative but light-hearted read, it will

encourage parents to bring the joy of

reading into every home.

PR: Nicola Burton

The Life ofSlangJULIE COLEMAN

‘Completely fascinating ... immensely

enjoyable.’

James McConnachie, The Sunday Times

Bad-ass, bee’s knees, and bomb-diggity:

slang has been around for centuries,

plaguing and troubling those who take a

purist line when it comes to the English

language. In this highly entertaining book,

Julie Coleman traces the development of

slang across the English-speaking world

and explores why and how it flourishes by

making use of a marvellous array of

sources, including newly available online

records of the Old Bailey, historical

newspapers, and the latest tweets.

PR: Chloe Foster

OxfordRussian MiniDictionaryRussian vocabulary, phrases, andexpressions at your fingertips

This small Russian-English and English-

Russian dictionary offers the most

accurate and up-to-date coverage of

essential, everyday vocabulary with over

40,000 words and phrases, and 60,000

translations. An easy-to-use design and a

centre section of useful words and

expressions listed by topic make this

dictionary ideal for travel and quick

reference. It also includes Russian

grammar help such as tables of noun

and adjective declensions, and

verb conjugations.

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Borrowed WordsA History of Loanwords in EnglishPHILIP DURKIN

Advance praise:

‘This is an important and engaging book.’

Richard Dance, University of Cambridge

The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has taken

from other languages, ranging from Latin and Greek to Japanese and Yiddish. Philip Durkin,

Principal Etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary, whose Oxford Guide to Etymology

has become the standard work in the field, shows how to discover the origins of loanwords,

when and why they were adopted, and what happens to them once they have been. This

outstanding book will appeal to a wide general public and at the same time offers a

valuable reference for scholars and students of the history of English.

PR: Nicola Burton

The Oxford Guide to Effective Argument andCritical ThinkingCOLIN SWATRIDGE

The key to exemplary essays and dynamic debates

What is the best way to approach an essay or discussion question? How do you review what

claims others have made and offer counter-claims? And how do you weigh up the strengths

and weaknesses of your own argument before putting together a persuasive conclusion?

This highly accessible book by an A-level chief examiner with many years’ experience

lecturing at universities takes you step by step through the entire process of the art of

argument. Engagingly written, its strength lies in its use of real-life examples and essay

questions from a variety of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. It is sure

to improve the written work of any student, scholar, or professional required to demonstrate

the key skills of critical writing and thinking.

PR: Nicola Burton

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SherlockHolmes: Selected StoriesARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Edited by BARRY MCCREA, Universityof Notre Dame

‘Detection is, or ought to be, anexact science’

For more than a century the Sherlock

Holmes stories have held a strange,

almost inexplicable grip on the popular

imagination. They have been endlessly

interpreted, adapted, and modernized,

but still it is to Arthur Conan Doyle’s

originals that we return. This new

selection of a dozen of the best of them,

including the book-length The Sign of the

Four, is the only edition available with an

introduction and notes.

PR: Kirsty Doole

Three PlaysSix Characters in Search ofan Author, Henry IV, TheMountain GiantsLUIGI PIRANDELLO

Translated by ANTHONY MORTIMER,University of Fribourg

‘The man will die, the writer, theinstrument of creation; but thecreature never dies!’

Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht,

and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern

drama. This Oxford World’s Classic

includes three of his most famous works

including his last unfinished masterpiece

The Mountain Giants. It also contains his

important Preface to Six Characters, an

essential critical document for

understanding the play that made him

famous. Anthony Mortimer's new, lively,

and performable translations remain

scrupulously faithful to the letter and spirit

of the originals.

PR: Kirsty Doole

Selected Poems andSongsROBERT BURNSEdited by ROBERT P. IRVINE,University of Edinburgh

‘The Poetic Genius of my Country ...bade me sing the loves, the joys, therural scenes and rural pleasures ofmy natal Soil, in my native tongue.’

Many of the poems and songs of Robert

Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the

world over. This new selection offers

Burns’s work as it was first encountered by

contemporary readers, presenting the texts

in the contexts in which they were originally

published. The edition also includes

musical scores, some important letters, and

a full glossary to explain Scots words.

PR: Kirsty Doole

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MoneyÉMILE ZOLA

Translated by VALERIE MINOGUE, University of Wales

‘The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and moneyare the only things.’

Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his

way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded ambition, he

schemes and manipulates his way to power. Last encountered in The Kill (La Curée) in Zola’s

Rougon-Macquart series, he is a complex figure whose story intricately intertwines the

worlds of politics, finance, and the press. The repercussions of his dealings on all levels of

society resonate disturbingly with the financial scandals of more recent times. This is the

first new translation for more than a hundred years, and the first unabridged translation in

English. The edition includes a wide-ranging introduction and useful historical notes.

PR: Kirsty Doole

The Conquest of PlassansÉMILE ZOLA

Translated by HELEN CONSTANTINE, introduction by PATRICK MCGUINNESS,University of Oxford

‘Abbé Faujas has arrived!’

The arrival of Abbé Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for

the community, and for François Mouret in particular. Ambitious and unscrupulous, Faujas

gradually infiltrates into all quarters of the town, intent on political as well as religious

conquest. Intrigue, slander, and insinuation tear the townsfolk apart, and Mouret, whose

wife falls under the influence of the priest, is driven to ever more extreme actions. The

fourth novel in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart sequence, The Conquest of Plassans returns to the

fictional Provençal town from which the family sprang in The Fortune of the Rougons. In one

of the most psychological of his novels, Zola links small-town politics to the greater political

and national dramas of the Second Empire.

PR: Kirsty Doole

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KidnappedROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEdited by IAN DUNCAN, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley

‘Your bed shall be the moorcock’s,and your life shall be like the hunteddeer’s, and ye shall sleep with yourhand upon your weapons’

Set in the aftermath of the 1745 rebellion,

Kidnapped transforms the Romantic

historical novel into the modern thriller. Its

heart-stopping scenes of cross-country

pursuit have become a staple of

adventure stories from John Buchan to

Alfred Hitchcock and Ian Fleming. This

new edition is based on the 1895 text,

incorporating Stevenson’s last thoughts

about the novel before his death, and

includes his ‘Note to Kidnapped’,

reprinted for the first time since 1922.

PR: Kirsty Doole

SelectedSpeechesDEMOSTHENESTranslated by ROBIN WATERFIELD,introduction by CHRIS CAREY,University College London

‘Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom’

Admired by many in the ancient world as

the greatest of the classic Athenian

orators, Demosthenes was intimately

involved in the political events of his day.

As well as showing a master orator at

work, his speeches are a prime source for

the history of the period. This selection, in

a sparkling new translation by Robin

Waterfield, includes the fullest range of

Demothenes’ oratory in a single volume.

PR: Kirsty Doole

Domestic Manners ofthe AmericansFRANCES TROLLOPEEdited by ELSIE B. MICHIE, LouisianaState University

‘It appeared to me that the greatestand best feelings of the humanheart were paralyzed by the relativepositions of slave and owner.’

Anthony Trollope’s mother, Frances,

travelled extensively through America,

and wrote one of the most influential

travel books of the nineteenth century.

Her witty, satirical, and entertaining

dissection of American manners

demonstrated her abhorrence of slavery

and fuelled abolitionist debate on both

sides of the Atlantic. This new edition

considers the work’s transatlantic success

and its political significance at a time of

social change in England.

PR: Kirsty Doole

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TheConfusions of YoungTörlessROBERT MUSILTranslated by MIKE MITCHELL,introduction by RITCHIE ROBERTSON,University of Oxford

‘Between the life we live and the lifewe feel ... there is the invisibleborder, like a narrow gate’

Based on the author’s own experiences at

an Austrian military academy, The

Confusions of Young Törless is a

profoundly disturbing exploration of a

non-moral outlook on life and of

dictatorial attitudes that prefigure the

outbreak of the First World War and the

rise of fascism. This new translation

restores the original layout approved by

Musil, and is the only edition to provide a

full, contextualizing introduction.

PR: Kirsty Doole

Discourses,Fragments,HandbookEPICTETUSTranslated by ROBIN HARD,introduction by CHRISTOPHER GILL,University of Exeter

‘About things that are within ourpower and those that are not.’

Epictetus’ Discourses teach that the

basis of happiness is up to us. From

antiquity onwards, they have been the

most widely read and influential of all

writings of Stoic philosophy. Robin Hard’s

new, accurate, and accessible translation

is the only modern one available of the

complete work. It is accompanied by

Christopher Gill's full introduction and

comprehensive notes.

PR: Kirsty Doole

TheaetetusPLATOTranslated by JOHN MCDOWELL,University of Pittsburgh; introductionby LESLEY BROWN, University ofOxford

‘What exactly is knowledge?’

The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the

philosophy of knowledge, and is

acknowledged as one of Plato’s finest

works. This new edition uses the

acclaimed translation by John McDowell,

and includes a valuable introduction by

Lesley Brown that explains some of the

competing interpretations of its overall

meaning. The notes elucidate Plato’s

arguments and draw connections within

the work and with other philosophical

discussions.

PR: Kirsty Doole

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VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONSThe Ice AgeA Very Short IntroductionJAMIE WOODWARD, University of Manchester

Drawing on examples from seven

continents, this Very Short Introduction

distils the enormous breadth of material

available on the ice ages, looking

particularly at the development of long-

standing controversies surrounding their

causes that inform current debates about

global warming. It also tells the extraordinary story of the

human beings, mammoths and other mega fauna for whom the

ice-age landscape was home.

February 2014, Paperback, 144 pp, 15 black and white halftones, 174x111 mm,

TE, 978-0-19-958069-9, £7.99, Available as an Ebook, PR: Chloe Foster

Family LawA Very Short IntroductionJONATHAN HERRING, University of Oxford

This clear and accessible introduction to

family law gives the reader an insight not

only into what the law regarding families is,

but why it is that way. Using examples from

around the world, it examines how laws

have had to respond to social changes in

family life, from rapidly rising divorce rates

to surrogate mothers, and gives insight into family courts. It

also looks at what the future family might look like and how the

law will respond.

February 2014, Paperback, 144 pp, 174x111 mm, TE, 978-0-19-966852-6,

£7.99, Available as an Ebook, PR: Chloe Foster

Philosophy of LawA Very Short IntroductionRAYMOND WACKS, University of Hong Kong

Raymond Wacks reveals the intriguing and

challenging nature of legal philosophy with

clarity and enthusiasm, providing an

enlightening guide to the central questions

of legal theory, the nature and purpose of

the legal system, and the practice by

courts, lawyers, and judges. This revised

edition includes new material on legal realism, changes to the

approach to the analysis of law and legal theory, and updated

material on historical and anthropological jurisprudence.

February 2014, Paperback, 152 pp, 15 black and white halftones, 174x111 mm,


RevolutionsA Very Short IntroductionJACK A. GOLDSTONE, George Mason University

From 1789 in France to the collapse of the

Soviet Union, ‘People Power’ revolutions,

and the Arab revolts, revolutions continue

to shake the world. This Very Short

Introduction is the first concise account of

the structural and cultural approaches to

revolution studies. It illuminates the

revolutionaries, their strategies, their successes and failures,

and the ways in which revolutions continue to dominate world

events and the popular imagination.

February 2014, Paperback, 160 pp, 10 black and white illustrations,

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HumourA Very Short IntroductionNOËL CARROLL, Temple University

Humour is a universal feature of human life. It

has been discovered in every known human

culture, and thinkers have discussed it for

over two thousand years. Noël Carroll

considers the nature and value of humour:

from its leading theories and its relation to

emotion and cognition, to ethical questions of

its morality and its significance in shaping society.

January 2014, Paperback, 144 pp, 15 black and white halftones, 174x111 mm,

TE, 978-0-19-955222-1, £7.99, Available as an Ebook, Previously announced:

December 2013, PR: Chloe Foster

PsychologyA Very Short IntroductionFREDA MCMANUS, University of Oxford, and GILLIAN BUTLER

What exactly do psychologists do and what

scientific grounding do they have for their

approach? Gillian Butler and Freda McManus

answer these questions by exploring some

of the most important advances and

developments in psychology. In the new

edition of their bestselling Very Short

Introduction, they explore some of the newest topics in

psychology and the latest discoveries in the study of the brain.

January 2014, Paperback, 176 pp, 18 black and white halftones, 174x111 mm,


April 2014Paperback

144 pp, 174x111 mm, 17 black and white line drawings, TE

978-0-19-968937-8£7.99


MicroeconomicsA Very Short IntroductionAVINASH DIXIT, Princeton University

When non-economists think about economics the issues that concern them most are the big

ones like unemployment, inflation, growth, competitiveness of nations – in other words,

macroeconomics. However, microeconomic issues – such as individuals’ choices of where to

live and work, how much to save, what to buy, firms’ decisions about location, hiring, firing,

investment, advertising, and many other dimensions of business, and government policies

are also very important. Microeconomics: A Very Short Introduction cuts this huge subject

down to size, and explains why things work well in the microeconomy much of the time,

when and why they fail in little and big ways, and what to do about such failures.

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VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONSAccountingA Very Short IntroductionCHRISTOPHER NOBES, University of London

Almost everyone will have some connection

to accounting – in business, through self-

employment, personal banking or even

listening to the financial news on the

television or radio. This book will help

readers to understand and use accounting

information. Introducing terms like ‘debits’,

‘pre-tax income’ and ‘goodwill’, it covers all the basic concepts in

accounting and considers its main areas, such as bookkeeping,

financial reporting, auditing and management accounting.

March 2014, Paperback, 144 pp, 17 black and white illustrations, 174x111 mm,


TeethA Very Short IntroductionPETER S. UNGAR, University of Arkansas

We may take them for granted but teeth are

amazing! Peter Ungar presents their story from

the earliest tooth-bearing fishes hundreds of

millions of years ago through amphibians to

reptiles and, ultimately, mammals, explaining

what fossil teeth can tell us about extinct

animals and their environments. Considering

why teeth are important, he describes how they are made, how they

work, and how recent changes to the human diet are affecting our

dental health.



Classical LiteratureA Very Short IntroductionWILLIAM ALLAN, University of Oxford

What exactly are the ‘classics’ and why do

they continue to shape our Western

concepts of literature? Presenting a range of

material from both Greek and Latin

literature, William Allan illustrates the variety

and sophistication of these works. He shows

what makes the ‘classics’ such masterpieces

and why they influence and fascinate even today.



Physical ChemistryA Very Short IntroductionPETER ATKINS, University of Oxford

Grounded in physics and mathematics and

drawing as it does on quantum mechanics,

thermodynamics, and statistical

mechanics, physical chemistry is perceived

as the most daunting of the branches of

chemistry. Who better to come to the

rescue of hard-pressed students and

puzzled non-scientists than Peter Atkins who tackles it with his

typical clarity and hardly a formula in sight?

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The EtruscansA Very Short IntroductionCHRISTOPHER SMITH, The British School, Rome

The Etruscans have fascinated scholars for

centuries with their alluring combination of

extensive, rich archaeological material but no

written record. Placing the Etruscans as a

real historical people in the wider world of

the Mediterranean, Christopher Smith has

created the only short, accessible book

that tells readers who the Etruscans were, describes their

geographical and chronological context, and reveals their fate

during the Roman empire.

April 2014, Paperback, 144 pp, 15 black and white illustrations, 174x111 mm,


Fascism A Very Short IntroductionKEVIN PASSMORE, University of Cardiff

‘Excellent ... succeeds on many levels ...

refreshingly free of jargon.’

Tim Kirk, Times Literary Supplement

In this new edition, Kevin Passmore brilliantly

unravels the paradoxes of one of the most

important phenomena in the modern world. He

looks at fascism from its pre-First World War

origins, scrutinizing such issues as fascism in culture, the new interest

in transnational research, and the progress of the far right since 2002.

May 2014, Paperback, 176 pp, 12 black and white illustrations, 174x111 mm,


The EyeA Very Short IntroductionMICHAEL F. LAND, Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex

The eye is one of the most remarkable

achievements of evolution, and has evolved

up to 40 times in different parts of the

animal kingdom. Michael Land looks at

humankind’s most important sense,

including the features of the human eye

and retina, the evolution of eyes, and visual

perception – eye movements, vision in three dimensions,

colour vision, and visual recognition.



Landscape ArchitectureA Very Short IntroductionIAN THOMPSON, Newcastle University

This book tells the fascinating story of the

development of landscape architecture

from its origins in landscape gardening to

tackling challenging societal and

environmental issues, including

environmental degradation, social justice

and climate change. Including examples

from around the world, Ian Thompson explains how the

discipline now includes wide areas of practice, from siting

wind-farms or power stations to designing play facilities.



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Dictionary ofJournalismTONY HARCUP, University of Sheffield

A brand-new reference work

This is a new, accessible, and authoritative

quick-reference dictionary containing over

1,200 wide-ranging entries on the terms

that are likely to be encountered by

students of journalism, media studies, TV

and radio production. Assuming little or no

prior knowledge, it covers terminology

relating to the practice, business, and

technology of journalism, its concepts and

theories, organizations and institutions,

publications, and key events. Relevant

web links are accessible on a companion

website that is regularly updated.

PR: Chloe Foster

See also Oxford Companion to ModernPoetry, page 25.

A Dictionary ofChemical EngineeringCARL SCHASCHKE, University ofStrathclyde

The most up-to-date reference of its kind

This brand-new dictionary contains over

3,400 concise and authoritative A-to-Z

entries, providing definitions and

explanations for chemical engineering

terms in areas including materials, energy

balances, reactions, separations,

sustainability, safety, and ethics. It also

covers many pertinent terms from the

fields of chemistry, physics, biology, and

mathematics. Comprehensively cross-

referenced and complemented by line

drawings, it features entry-level web links

listed and regularly updated on a

dedicated companion website.

PR: Chloe Foster

A Dictionary of Nursing‘As a student Nurse, this has become my

bible, I don’t leave for class without it.’

Amazon reviewer

The seventh edition of this best-selling

dictionary has been fully updated and

revised to take account of recent

developments in nursing practice and

related fields, with a particular focus on

risk assessement tools and terms

relating to the Mental Health Act 2005,

as well as recent NHS initiatives to

improve care standards. Written by

medical and nursing specialists and

offering 10,200 clear and concise entries

on the theory and practice of nursing, the

dictionary provides comprehensive

coverage of the ever-expanding

vocabulary of the nursing professions.

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GeopoliticsA Very Short IntroductionKLAUS DODDS, Royal Holloway, University of London

Using examples from historical maps to

James Bond films and the rhetoric of

political leaders, this engrossing study of a

complex area shows why, for a full

understanding of contemporary global

politics, it is not just smart – it is essential

– to be geopolitical. The fully updated

second edition takes into account recent political

developments in the Eurozone and more recent examples.

June 2014, Paperback, 200 pp, 25 black and white illustrations, 174x111 mm,


Coral ReefsA Very Short IntroductionCHARLES SHEPPARD, University of Warwick

Coral reefs are among the most biodiverse

of ecosystems. Charles Sheppard tells the

enthralling story of how and where coral

reefs are formed and the diversity of

marine life they support. Today, reefs are

not just suffering from over-exploitation

but also ocean acidification due to

pollution and climate change – many are already dying.

Sheppard describes how these problems are being tackled.



NutritionA Very Short IntroductionDAVID BENDER, University College London

In spite of health campaigns such as ‘five-a-

day’ vegetables and fruit, many people are

puzzled by conflicting information,

particularly from the media, about what

and what not to eat. David Bender comes to

the rescue with clear information on all

aspects of food, including the balance

between energy intake and exercise, the problems of over- and

under-nutrition, and the safety of nutritional supplements.



African American ReligionA Very Short IntroductionEDDIE S. GLAUDE Jr, Princeton University

Eddie S. Glaude argues that the phrase

‘African American religion’ is meaningful only

insofar as it singles out the distinctive ways

religion has been leveraged by African

Americans to respond to different racial

regimes in the United States. Slavery, Jim

Crow, and current appeals to colour blindness

serve as a backdrop for his treatment of conjure (also known as

hoodoo), African-American Christianity and Islam in this

controversial Very Short Introduction.

June 2014, Paperback, 144 pp, 174x111 mm, TE, 978-0-19-518289-7, £7.99,

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A Dictionary of ZoologyMICHAEL ALLABY

‘A fine compendium of unquestionable use

... Make sure you have an Allaby handy.’

Nature

This best-selling dictionary is the most

comprehensive and up to date of its

kind, containing over 6,000 entries on all

aspects of zoology. Complemented by

numerous illustrations, it includes terms

from ecology, animal behaviour,

evolution, earth history, zoogeography,

genetics, and physiology, and provides

full taxonomic coverage of arthropods,

other invertebrates, fish, reptiles,

amphibians, birds, and mammals. The

fourth edition has been fully revised and

updated and includes many new entries.

Recommended web links can be

accessed via a companion website.

PR: Chloe Foster

A Dictionary of Statistics GRAHAM UPTON and IAN COOK, bothUniversity of Essex

‘This gem ... is highly recommended to

users of statistics at all levels.’

Significance (Royal Statistical Society)

This wide-ranging, jargon-free dictionary

contains over 2,300 entries on all aspects

of statistics, including terms used in

computing, mathematics, and probability.

It also includes biographical information

on over 200 key figures in the field and

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FFaith and Wisdom in Science 39Family Law 53Farmer, Roger E. A. 44Fascism 55 50 Visions of Mathematics 38Fight or Flight 15Finlayson, Clive 31First World War, The 9Flood, Raymond 38Floridi, Luciano 33Fourth Revolution, The 33Freudenberg, Nicholas 44Friedman, Allan 45

GGadd, Ian 63Geopolitics 56 Gestapo, The 10Giugale, Marcelo 45Gill, Christopher 50Glaude Jr, Eddie S. 56Goldin, Ian 43Goldsmith, Mike 39Goldstone, Jack A. 53Goodbye to All That? 16Gouardo, Christopher 40Grossman, Richard S. 40

HHall, Kersten T. 38Halsall, Guy 14Hamilton, Ian 25Harcup, Tony 57Hard, Robin 50Harris, Tim 5Haugen, Gary A. 41Helm, Dieter 42Hepburn, Cameron 42Herring, Jonathan 53Hett, Benjamin Carter 14History of Oxford University Press, The 63How the Economy Works 44Humour 52

IIce Age, The 53Improbable Primate, The 31Irvine, Robert P. 49Is the Planet Full? 43

JJames Clerk Maxwell 38Jane Austen’s Letters 21Japan 45Jensen, Eric Frederick 21Johannessen, Ingólfur 34July 1914 7

KKalyvas, Stathis 45

Kidnapped 51

Kottler, Jeffrey A. 29

LLa Fontaine, Jean de 23Land, Michael F. 55Landscape Architecture 55Lane, Christel 42Le Faye, Deirdre 21Lethal But Legal 44Levi, Michael 41Life of Slang, The 47Life Unfolding 30Lim, Louisa 16Livingstone, E. A. 58Locust Effect, The 41Lopes, Dominic McIver 29Louis, Wm Roger 63

MMan in the Monkeynut Coat, The 38Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary 8Markovits, Henry 36Marshall, Richard 28Martel, Gordon 7Matthews, P. H. 58McCartney, Mark 38McCrea, Barry 49McDowell, John 50McGuinness, Patrick 48McLeish, Tom 39McManus, Freda 52McRae, Kenneth D. 37Michie, Elsie B. 51Microeconomics 52Miller, Richard J. 35Minogue, Valerie 48Mitchell, Mike 50Modern Greece 45Moffatt, John 37Money 48Money, Nicholas P. 32Mortimer, Anthony 49Mowatt, Simon 17Murphy, R. Taggart 45Musil, Robert 50

NNature in the Balance 42Neptune 11New History of the Humanities, A 17New Oxford Book of War Poetry, The 24Newton Papers, The 21Nicholson, James 59Nobes, Christopher 54Noel-Tod, Jeremy 25Normans and Empire, The 17Nuclear Dawn 37Nutrition 56

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Aarts, Bas 58Accounting 54Adamson, Peter 27African American Religion 56Allaby, Michael 59Allan, William 54Amoeba in the Room, The 32Ancient Syria 13Archibald, John 33Atkins, Peter 54

BBanker, James R. 20Bates, David 17Being Realistic about Reasons 29Bell, Christopher M. 18Bender, David 56Benenson, Joyce F. 36Bennett, Gill 18Betts, Christopher 23Beyond Art 29Bod, Rens 17Book Smart 47Borrowed Words 46Bostrom, Nick 34Bourke, Joanna 12Boutros, Victor 41Brock, Eleanor 8Brock, Michael 8Brown, Lesley 50Bryce, Trevor 13Burning the Reichstag 14Burns, Robert 49Business Strategy 43Butler, Gillian 52By All Means Necessary 41

CCancer Virus 34Carey, Chris 51Carroll, Noel 52Chalker, Sylvia 58Change 28Churchill and Sea Power 18Clapham, Christopher 59Clare, John 25Classical Literature 54Classical Philosophy 27Cold of May Day Monday, The 26Coleman, Julie 47Compleat Angler, The 22Conan Doyle, Arthur 49Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, The 58Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics,The 59Confusions of Young Torless, The 50Conquest of Plassans, The 48Constantine, Helen 48Cook, Ian 59Coral Reefs 56Cotton, Charles 22Cox, Howard 17Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe 37Crawford, Dorothy H. 34Cultivation of Taste, The 42Cunningham, Anne E. 47Cybersecurity and Cyberwar 45

DDams, Carsten 10Davenport-Hines, Richard 19Davies, Jamie A. 30Death from the Skies 15Debussy 21Demosthenes 51Dictionary of Chemical Engineering, A 57Dictionary of Finance and Banking, A 58Dictionary of Journalism, A 57Dictionary of Nursing, A 57Dictionary of Statistics, A 59Dictionary of Zoology, A 59Discord 39Discourses, Fragments, Handbook 50Divided Nations 43Dixit, Avinash 52Dodds, Klaus 56Domestic Manners of the Americans 51Drugged 35Dry, Sarah 21Duncan, Ian 51Durkin, Philip 46

EEconomic Development 45Economy, Elizabeth C. 41Edmunds, David 29Eliot, Simon 63Epictetus 50Etruscans, The 55Euro Crisis and its Aftermath 40Eye, The 55

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One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper 19One Plus One Equals One 33Origin of Ideas, The 35Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry inEnglish, The 25Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, The 58Oxford Guide to Effective Argument andCritical Thinking, The 46Oxford Illustrated History of the First WorldWar, The 9Oxford Russian Mini Dictionary 47

PParc, Sam 38Passmore, Kevin 55People’s Republic of Amnesia, The 16Philosophy at 3:AM 28Philosophy Bites Back 29Philosophy of Law 53Physical Chemistry 54Pick, Daniel 18Piero della Francesca 20Pirandello, Luigi 49Pisani-Ferry, Jean 40Plato 50Powell, David 25Pross, Addy 39Proust Effect, The 37Psychology 52Pursuit of the Nazi Mind, The 18

RRebellion 5Revolutions 53Revolutions from Grub Street 17Rickinson, Alan B. 34Robertson, Ritchie 50Robinson, Eric 25

SScanlon, T. M. 29Schaschke, Carl 57Science of Cheese, The 36Scott Kastan, David 26Secord, James A. 13Selected Fables 23Selected Poems and Songs 49Selected Speeches 51Selected Stories 49Shepherd’s Calendar, The 25Sheppard, Charles 56Sherlock Holmes 49Singer, Peter W. 45Sisman, Adam 19Six Moments of Crisis 18Smith, Christopher 55Spender, John-Christopher 43Stallworthy, Jon 24Stevenson, Robert Louis 51Stolle, Michael 10Stone, Dan 16Story of Pain, The 12Strachan, Hew 9Summerfield, Geoffrey 25Superintelligence 34Süss, Dietmar 15Swann, Marjorie 22Swatridge, Colin 46Symonds, Craig L. 11

TTaken at the Flood 6Teeth 54Theaetetus 50Thomas, Martin 15Thompson, Ian 55Three Plays 49Tinker-Salas, Miguel 44Trevor-Roper, Hugh 19Trollope, Frances 51Tunick, Michael H. 36Turner, Mark 35

UUngar, Peter S. 54Upton, Graham 59

VVan Campen, Chretien 37Venezuela 44Visions of Science 13

WWacks, Raymond 53Walton, Izaak 22Warburton, Nigel 29Warriors and Worriers 36Waterfield, Robin 6, 51Weiner, Edmund 58Welch, Robert Anthony 26What Everyone Needs to Know 44What is Life? 39Whitaker, Andrew 38Will to Believe, A 26Woodward, Jamie 53Worlds of Arthur 14Wrong 40

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